title: Personality, smoking, and alcohol as synergistic risk factors for cancer of the mouth and pharynx.
abstract: 34 male patients suffering from cancer of the mouth or pharynx were studied with reference to their personality type, smoking and drinking habits, and compared with a healthy sample of 1706 men. The three risk factors showed a strong tendency to be related to cancer only in combination, adding new evidence to the theory that risk factors in cancer act in a synergistic fashion.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, England.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Grossarth-Maticek
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Eysenck
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000523:psychology; D000431:Ethanol / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D009062:Mouth Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D010553:Personality Development; D010556:Personality Tests; D010610:Pharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000523:psychology
chemical_list: D000431:Ethanol